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Review of Sum in Quill & Quire. Review of Sum in Arc Poetry Magazine. |
A collection of critical prose drawn from a decade's work.
Order CLM from the publisher. EXCERPTS: "Clear Vision" (Review of Goran Simic (tr. Amela Simic), From Sarajevo, with Sorrow) "Nailing Down the Hard Parts" (Review Suzanne Buffam, Past Imperfect, & Pino Coluccio, First Comes Love |
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Review of CLM in The Telegraph Journal.
Commentary on CLM by Jacob Bachinger on his blog. Review of CLM by Michael Bryson on his blog. Review of CLM by Mark Sampson on his blog. Review of CLM by Brian Campbell for Rover Arts. |
The first book of Kenneth Leslie's poems to be published since 1972, courtesy of The Porcupine's Quill. Order EKL from the publisher |
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Read an essay about Kenneth Leslie, by Burris Devanney. Abstract of an essay I wrote about Kenneth Leslie for Arc Poetry Magazine. Hear me read Kenneth Leslie's poem "Lowlands Low." A web archive of Kenneth Leslie's poems. If you have Vision TV on your cable, you can catch a documentary film about Kenneth Leslie, God's Red Poet, by Halifax filmmaker Chuck Lapp. Hear the Upper Canada Choir singing Kenneth Leslie's "Cape Breton Lullaby," the lyrics of which are included in The Essential Kenneth Leslie. Commentary on EKL by Paul Vermeersch for Open Book Toronto, March 14, 2010. Brief review of EKL in The Telegraph Journal, March 27, 2010. Brief review of EKL in The Midwest Book Review, May 2010. Review of EKL in ForeWord Book Reviews, October 2010. Review of EKL in Canadian Literature, November 2011. |
My second trade collection of poems. Track & Trace is published by Biblioasis and illustrated by Seth. Order Track & Trace from the publisher Order Track & Trace from McNally Robinson |
A children's story in verse, co-written with Rachel Lebowitz and illustrated by Eric Orchard. Anything But Hank! was published by Biblioasis in October 2008. Order Anything But Hank! from the publisher |
A one-of-a-kind anthology of Canadian sonnets, edited by me. Jailbreaks is published by Biblioasis. Order Jailbreaks from Biblioasis |
My first full-length collection of poems, distilled from seven-plus years of work as a cargo handler, agent and coordinator in Canada's Eastern Arctic. Unsettled is published by Insomniac Press. Order Unsettled from Insomniac Press. |
A limited edition of 60 numbered, handsewn copies, published by Baseline Press, November 2013. Order Baffle from the publisher. |
A limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, published by Cactus Press, March 2012. This chapbook contains ten of my poems, with translations by Lidia Valencia-Fourcans and Hernan Sicilio. It was produced in support of my fundraising campaign to cover travel costs to the 2012 Linares International Literary Festival in Linares, Mexico. |
Sealift
A 24-track CD of poems from Unsettled.
If you'd like a copy of
Sealift, you can send me $10.00 (CAD) plus $2.00 for shipping & handling
within Canada or $5.00 for international shipments. If you're in the USA or elsewhere,
the same amounts apply in USD. Please
contact me to arrange payment options (cheque, money order, paypal). If paying
by debit/credit via paypal, please add $1.00 to cover fees; no extra funds required
if transferring funds from your paypal account to mine. If you'd
like a signed copy of
Unsettled along with it, add $10.00.
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After the Blizzard
A limited edition chapbook published by Littlefishcartpress of Orono, Ontario in May 2008. It contains a sonnet corona I wrote in 2004. Order After the Blizzard from Littlefishcartpress. Read "After the Blizzard" at the University of Toronto Library's Canadian poetry site. |
Ludicrous Parole
A limited edition chapbook of 100 copies published by Mercutio Press of Montreal in December 2005, with a second edition of 60 copies printed in September 2006. It contains seventeen poems, united by the idea of "voice": soliloquies, addresses, vernacular poems, and ventriloqual translations. Order Ludicrous Parole from Mercutio Press. Read a sample from Ludicrous Parole. An interview of me, focusing on "The Exterminator's Song to the Silverfish," which appears in Ludicrous Parole. |
A limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks, March 2004. Fool's Errand is a sixteen-page chapbook, containing a baker's dozen of my poems. OUT OF PRINT Commentary on Fool's Errand |
A limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, presented in a folded broadsheet format and printed on Arches watercolour paper, published by Frog Hollow Press of Victoria. "Achromatope" is a dramatic monologue in the voice of a colour- blinded painter, a verse adaptation of an essay by Oliver Sacks in his book An Anthropologist on Mars. ORDER "ACHROMATOPE" |
A limited varied edition of twelve signed and numbered prints, combining lithographic and intaglio techniques on cotton rag paper, produced by Halifax-based artist and printmaker Margaret Flood. Please contact me for ordering details. |
